i'm not familliar with regular expresions but i think that ^a-z - means that variable must start witx a-z characters you can chek it here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php <emre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:009501c53861$2a92e3e0$bf6aaec3@xxxxxxxxxxx >I m trying to check $GP[sifre] variable, $GP[sifre] must consist of alpha > numeric chars only. here, how I check the variable: > > if((eregi("[^a-zA-Z0-9]",$GP[sifre]) > echo 'true'; > else > echo 'false'; > > It works if variable starts with alphabetic chars only. > for example this returns 'ok' > $GP[sifre]='blabla234243'; > but this does not work: (if variable starts with numeric chars) > $GP[sifre]='3243242blabla'; > > second one returns false, couldnt figure out the problem here. any help ? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
